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Hi, I am trying to set up a Fedora Directory server for centralised authentication. I configure the directory server, add a user called (via the Java GUI) test and then, using system-config-authentication, enable LDAP on both tabs. I then try to log-in using the test account I set up on the directory, but I get an error message in /var/log/messages: May 30 16:28:27 ds1 sshd(pam_unix)[4445]:

...not a problem but when I start going to 10000 users I start getting some weird errors and timeouts because of the time it takes to download the data to the client. I have tested this against 389 Directory Server and OpenLDAP and both give the same behaviour described above. I have tried adding a nss_base directives in /etc/ldap.conf but it has had no effect. my /etc/ldap.conf: binddn uid=SysAuth,ou=Service Accounts,dc=mycompany bindpw secret pam_password clear base dc=betfair nss_base_passwd ou=people,dc=mycompany?sub nss_base_group ou=Groups,dc=myc...